Author of quotes: Valentin Pikul

Any village shoemaker is capable of opening a battle, but sometimes even a genius cannot finish it. The finals of battles are more dangerous than their beginning.

War is excusable only if it is aimed at defending the fatherland, but it becomes a disaster if its goal is to conquer neighboring peoples. Humanity is the first duty of a commander, who, even in his terrible trade, must find occasions for the manifestation of philanthropy.

- You don't have to be a genius to do it. Do your job, tell the truth, do not flatter - and this is quite enough for any mongrel to bark at you from under every fence.

The people are not the government! Give me a specific person to follow, and I'll...think about it.

Those who sit at the top today argue according to a well-known scheme: after us, at least a flood. Without thinking about it and not believing that the flood is really coming.

The whole trouble is that our fleet, the only one in the world, rejects the principle of voluntary recruitment. They look at the recruit in the mouth and in the anus, but it would be better to look into his soul: is there a craving for the sea?

You used to think that it was hard, but now it will start hard. They always beat their own more painfully. Paradise life is over.

Atryganiev compared Russia with a ship that, putting the rudders on board, writes out the steepest circulation, which always threatens the ship with the keel tipping upwards.

It seems that a historical moment has come when the proverb “eat bread and salt, but cut the truth” has to be replaced by another: “eat a pie with mushrooms, but keep your mouth shut”

- To spite the Victorians! Why did they suddenly decide that only we, Russians, are capable of being barbarians? ..

She was only available to the happiness that she gives to others.

Time, after all, is also an abstraction, an invention of man. But an invention is so precious that, without understanding time, we are unable to understand our whole life ...

I earn my bread by doing what I love. This is probably why I am happy.

It's easy to show courage when your squadron is on its way to victory, but double courage is needed when the squadron goes towards certain death.